I was overwhelmed with the response to my call-out for donations to Syrian refugees in Turkey. You may recall a little over a week ago, I sent out an email calling for donations of clothes, with which I would take to Istanbul on my visit and distribute to the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees about to endure Istanbul’s cold winter. I received many responses congratulating me on my actions, and many from people who would have loved to donate clothes but for the fact that we lived in different cities.

This story doesn't sound like its got a lot to do with solar system reliability... but stick with it

Not many people know it, but when I graduated from my Science/Engineering degrees, my first job was as a hardware development engineer at a Telecommunications equipment startup. Apart from doing some hard core design work at Gbps speeds on optical fibre interfaces, I was also responsible for demonstrating that the equipment met its reliability promises - so the company could stand by its warranty without fear of in-field failure en-masse. Exactly the question that micro-inverter manufacturers must make when offering 25 years warranty before they have 25 years of operational experience.

We all know how valuable profit is to a business. It’s literally the lifeline that keeps businesses afloat. So considering that most businesses don’t want to fight tooth and claw for every cent of profit (although many in the solar industry do), what’s the best way to get maximum profit with minimal effort?

Solar businesses (like any business) rely on profits to sustain them. So it goes without mention really that lower profits can destroy businesses. If you’re competing with other businesses on price then you are on the wrong track! Customers will naturally think that price is a big thing while making their decision, but if you can effectively communicate the value you are offering – by not selling systems dirt-cheap, then you have a very good chance of selling and making a good profit.

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By all accounts, 2018 was a stellar year for Australian Solar Power. To celebrate all of the solar glory, SunWiz has written a series of articles covering 2018 - the key trends, achievements, and milestones for each state and segment of the Australian solar industry. These trends, facts and figures are covered in extraordinary detail in SunWiz’s 2018 Year in Review, which can be purchased for $1995 ex GST, which also includes a complimentary 3 month subscription to Insights, SunWiz’s flagship PV market intelligence subscription.
The topics covered in our Year in Review series are:
2018 - Australia's record breaking year. In eyewatering charts
2018 - state roundup
2018’s Top Retailers
2018 - Trends in Commercial PV
2018 - residential revival
2018- Australia’s magnificent year for solar farms
Australia's magnificent year for solar farms
In this series, we've seen that 2018 was a record year for the Australian PV Industry in the residential, sub-100kW commercial, and >100kW commercial rooftop segments. In this article, we'll look at the record-smashing year for solar farms. Data is taken from RenewEconomy / SunWiz's Large Scale Lookout service.

By all accounts, 2018 was a stellar year for Australian Solar Power. To celebrate all of the solar glory, SunWiz has written a series of articles covering 2018 - the key trends, achievements, and milestones for each state and segment of the Australian solar industry. These trends, facts and figures are covered in extraordinary detail in SunWiz’s 2018 Year in Review, which can be purchased for $1995 ex GST, which also includes a complimentary 3 month subscription to Insights, SunWiz’s flagship PV market intelligence subscription.
The topics covered in our Year in Review series are:
2018 - Australia's record breaking year. In eyewatering charts
2018 - state roundup
2018’s Top Retailers
2018 - Trends in Commercial PV
2018 - residential revival
2018- Australia’s magnificent year for solar farms
Top PV Retailer by volume in each segment:
SunWiz tracks every individual installation in the Australian market, based upon STC and LGC creation. Most of the largest companies self-register STCs, which provides highly granular and accurate insight into the volumes of the players that make up the top ranks. Our full Year in Review report provides the annual and monthly volumes for the top players in the national STC market, plus the annual volumes of the top players by state and in each commercial size segment in the STC market. Redacted versions of these charts are shown below, in order to identify the top player and the competitiveness of the state or market segment.

By all accounts, 2018 was a stellar year for Australian Solar Power. To celebrate all of the solar glory, SunWiz has written a series of articles covering 2018 - the key trends, achievements, and milestones for each state and segment of the Australian solar industry. These trends, facts and figures are covered in extraordinary detail in SunWiz’s 2018 Year in Review, which can be purchased for $1995 ex GST, which also includes a complimentary 3 month subscription to Insights, SunWiz’s flagship PV market intelligence subscription.
The topics covered in our Year in Review series are:
2018 - Australia's record breaking year. In eyewatering charts
2018 - state roundup
2018’s Top Retailers
2018 - Trends in Commercial PV
2018 - residential revival
2018- Australia’s magnificent year for solar farms
2018 - state roundup
In our first article, we took a look at the record-breaking year for the sub-100kW market Australia-wide. In this article we’ll have a look at how each state fared.